Update: Robin Hood has now been confirmed as the opening night film in an official statement. The Cannes Film Festival is set to kick-off on May 12th, just two days ahead of Ridley Scott's Robin Hood being unleashed in several countries, including the US and UK. It would be perfect timing, then, to have the…
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Fox have decided to hold back release on Oliver Stone's Wall Street sequel, subtitled Money Never Sleeps, until September 24th. This will put it up against Kevin McDonald's Eagle of the Ninth, Zack Snyder's Legend of the Guardians and Andy Fickman's You Again with Kristen Bell and Sigourney Weaver. I was surprised to enjoy the…
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According to the newly minted Nikki Finke, an offer has gone out to Josh Brolin to re-team with director Oliver Stone (W.) on Wall Street 2 for the role of a conniving hedge fund manager. He'd star opposite Shia LaBeouf, playing an ambitious young trader courting the daughter of Michael Douglas's iconic Gordon Gekko, freshly…
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Javier Bardem is joining the cast of Oliver Stone's Wall Street 2, according to Nikki Finke. He'll join Michael Douglas, who returns as Gordon Gekko, and Shia LaBeouf, who plays a young trader who is engaged to marry Gekko's daughter. If Finke's sources are correct, that will nearly solidify the primary lineup of this sequel…
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Oliver Stone has officially signed a deal with 20th Century Fox to direct a sequel to the 1987 film Wall Street, according to Entertainment Weekly. Wall Street 2 is the tentative working title for the project, which had been under the working title of Money Never Sleeps. 21 and Things We Lost in the Fire…
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Ropes of Silicon has a 50 minute interview with W. screenwriter Stanley Weiser, but who cares about W. anymore? Weiser is the same guy who wrote Wall Street and penned a treatment for a Wall Street sequel before Oliver Stone and the film's producer parted ways. "To make a long story short, I wrote the…
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With the stock market back in the news headlines due, it is no surprise that 20th Century Fox is moving forward with development on the previously announced sequel to Oliver Stone's 1987 film Wall Street. 21 scribe Allan Loeb has been hired to pen the screenplay. I've heard nothing but bad things about Stephen Schiff's…
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In a new interview with The Times UK, director Oliver Stone ponders the domestic box office prospects for his W. biopic, opening in limited release the 17th of this month. The Lionsgate film had a budget of $30 million---financed by Chinese investors---and arguably there is no precedent for how well it might do. High profile…
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20th Century Fox is developing a sequel to Oliver Stone's 1987 drama Wall Street. The studio has signed deals with the original producer and also the writer. Stephen Schiff script Money Never Sleeps will follow Gordon Gekko's release from jail and entry into the exciting world of hedge funds. The project is being set-up as…
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